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VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia

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92 points mikece | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 16:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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TrackerFF ◴[15 Jul 25 10:25 UTC] No.44569720[source]▶
Were bootlegs popular?

The first time I traveled outside the western part of the world, I was (naively or not) surprised by the sheer amount of bootleg tapes sold in regular stores. Same with DVD when that time came around.

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CYR1X ◴[15 Jul 25 15:42 UTC] No.44572330[source]▶
Copy protection for physical media was so rudimentary back then. VHS tapes literally just have a piece of plastic you could break off that acted as copy protection. Everyone had CRT's so no one was a quality freak either, really.
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1. criddell ◴[15 Jul 25 15:46 UTC] No.44572376[source]▶
> VHS tapes literally just have a piece of plastic you could break off

I think that made the tapes read-only.

VHS copy protection was mostly some flavour of Macrovision (at least in Canada).